"The loneliest number"

The answer

ONE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONE answer page.

Used 66 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 21 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ONEIS (34 uses in xd)

Other clues for ONE

Every other clue in this collection answered by ONE, most used first.

• Small bill - used 170 times, most recently in 2026
• Inseparable - used 161 times, most recently in 2026
• Half and half - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Undivided - used 122 times, most recently in 2026
• Count start - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• Indivisible - used 102 times, most recently in 2025
• Dollar bill - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
• Binary digit - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Unified - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Early afternoon - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
• "A Chorus Line" song - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
• Early hour - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Washington's bill - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Singleton - used 48 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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